Par STEPHENSON JOSEPHINE. 'This piece was inspired by a photograph of Phoebe Theodora's called 'One summer in London’, selected for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in 2012. It shows a young woman sitting naked against a white wall with a stunned, melancholic look on her face. Looking at the picture and asking myself what might possibly be going through this perso…

I have the pleasure of presenting the new Souza Lima playalong method series. This project is the result of extensive research and careful elaboration aiming at offering representative material on the most varied styles of Brazilian music to professional musicians, students, teachers and all those who take a general interest in this field of music. The focus of this series is on the language of in…

Alfred's Top Hits series has overwhelmingly been accepted by students and teachers. This series combines just the right combination of hits from Broadway, Hollywood, television and recordings! As you might expect from Alfred, this series offers a rare combination of great music arranged with care and creativity. Your beginning and intermediate students can savor the excitement of playing pop music…

The Guitar Amp Handbook: Understanding Tube Amplifiers and Getting Great Sounds, Updated Edition brings fresh information to the table to help guitarists understand everything about what makes their amps tick and how to use them to sound better than ever. It builds on the popular original edition of the book, first published in 2005.Central to the book's success is the way it walks musicians throu…

12 Easy Zoological Pieces. Par RAE JAMES. In 'Zoo Time!” for clarinet and piano, James Rae has imagined how our friends in the zoo might perform on the dance floor! This has inspired some delightful pieces such as 'Tiger Tango”, 'Rhino Rumba”, 'Cobra Calypso” and many more. But it's not just fun for pupil and teacher alike - musical styles are explored even at this early (Grade 1) stage and the st…

Now That's What I Call Christmas features 20 of the greatest Christmas songs of all time, arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar.From festive pop favourites such as Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You and Elton John's Step Into Christmas, to classics like Aled Jones' Walking In The Air and Doris Day's Winter Wonderland, the hits in this collection are sure to get you in the Christmas spir…

Remember fighting off the Sandman, desperately struggling to stay awake at the chance that you might catch a glimpse of Saint Nick. Every rustle or bump made you jolt from your quilted pod and race to the living room where the lit tree posed, draped in soft light. Still no Santa!It took all your energy to climb back into bed with your eyelids drawn and your body heavy. Tucked back in as best as yo…

With 'The Techniques of Trombone Playing', Mike Svoboda has written a book conceived as a valuable guide for composers and trombonists. It familiarises composers with contemporary trombone techniques and shows how to put them to creative use. Furthermore it helps trombonists to view and employ their versatile instrument as a multi-functional sound generator. Together with composer Michel Roth, Mi…

It's super easy! This series features accessible arrangements for piano, with simple right-hand melody, letter names inside each note, basic left-hand chord diagrams, and no page turns. The arrangements also include lyrics. This edition includes 60 classic songs: Always · Bohemian Rhapsody · Can't Help Falling in Love · Don't Stop Believin' · Edelweiss · Georgia on My Mind · Hallelujah · Imagine ·…

Par COHEN MARY. Favourite carols and festive tunes have here been creatively arranged for the beginner quartet (Grade 1?2 ) by the ever-resourceful Mary Cohen. From the more solemn to the extremely boisterous, these arrangements explore a wide range of musical styles as well as many interesting string effects (including simple harmonics, col legno, pizzicato and tremolo). Conscious of the limited …

A guaranteed showstopper! This playful Irish children's song has been set with rousing clapping and stomping to reflect how it might have been sung by children during their playtime. The Vocals are set in a simple homophonic style, which makes the Body Percussion achievable. This work can be performed with or without Piano and makes a fantastic concert closer! / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano

Par PASTORE CARMINE. Fun for all!! The chorale style opening soon turns into a rousing, funky-jazzy-gospel riff-style roof-raiser that will have your audience tapping along. It's nice for the concert band to get the opportunity to play something 'jazzy' once in a while, and you know the audience will love it as much as the band does. Plenty of opportunity to study jazz-style phrasing in the concer…

His Guitars and Music. Par VALENS RITCHIE. Ritchie Valens was the first nationally recognized Latino rock 'n' roll star. He had a meteoric rise to fame in a career that lasted barely eight months, before his tragic death along with Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and pilot Roger Peterson, in a plane crash north of Clear Lake, Iowa. Ritchie's unique guitar style and high-energy performances made him a …

Motette für gemischten Chor. Par SCHULTZ WOLFGANG-ANDREAS. The title's Third Word of Creation refers to verses from Rilke's Book of Hours which indicate the fear of what other delicate experiments God might come up with after 'light' and 'man'. Schultz contradicts the text by combining it with the monolithic beginning of the First Book of Moses in the Old Testament, which is imbued with the rightn…

Par RAE JAMES. James Rae is such a prolific editor, arranger, and composer for Universal Edition's educational catalog, we might forget that he is also a dedicated composer of original concert works. UE presents Rae's new clarinet Sonata, which was premiered in 2014 by its dedicatée, clarinettist David Campbell. Enjoy sample excerpts of Movements 1 and 2 by Campbell with pianist Caroline Jaya-Ratn…